Christopher Healy · 436 pages
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“No, Princes Charming," Duncan cheerfully corrected. "'Prince' is the noun; that's what gets pluralized. 'Charming' is an adjective; you can't add an S to it like that.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in a sheet”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Duncan, what are you?"
"Human!" Duncan cried, trembling with excitement.
"More specific," Liam said, still dramatically.
"A five-foot-two human!"
"I'm going for hero here," Liam hinted under his breath.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Can you believe the man rhymed 'Rumplestiltskin' with 'crumpled napkins'?”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Duncan,we're still in prison," Frederic said dryly. "You're not going to see anything except this cell. Which has spiders, by the way. Have you noticed the spiders?" "Indeed I have: Carmen, Zippy, and Dr. T," Duncan said.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“On still another road, a green-haired man wobbled by on peppermint-stick stilts; a fiery-plumed bird of paradise perched on his shoulder. But he's not in this story, so don't pay any attention to him.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“He was curious to know more about her. So he did something extremely rare. He sent her a note. Even more shocking, he suggested they meet. In person. Two people from different kingdoms - who are engaged to be married. Crazy, I know.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Once you've been squashed by a giant, a troll doesn't even seem nearly as heavy.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Frederic had imagined this moment - him running to Ella with open arms, calling her name - but being as winded as he was, doubled over with his hands on his knees, all he could do was nod in her general direction.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Get him now?" Duncan asked. He looked at the sword in his hand. Unsure of what he should do, he tossed the weapon at the giant. The sword flipped through the air a couple of times and landed softly on the grass only a few feet away.
"That was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen," said Gustav.
Duncan stepped forward to retrieve his sword, tripped over his belt, hit his head on a rock, and knocked himself out cold.
"I spoke to soon," said Gustav. "That was the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Please tell me he's not skipping.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Someone's having a pity party and didn't invite the rest of us.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Wild card, got it," Duncan said. "Just like in Crazy Eights. I can be a diamond; I can be a spade. Whatever you need me to be, I'm that thing. That is so me.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Look,” Liam said, “sometimes being a hero isn’t about getting the glory. It’s about doing what needs to be done.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“You're a way-getter-inner, I can tell.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done" -Liam”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“(during which Gustav was so overwhelmed by emotion that he actually gave Frederic a pat on the back),”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“He opened the door and entered the Stumpy Boarhound. Which you knew he would do. Because you read the prologue.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“that,” Liam said, “it’ll be a lot to live up to.” Frederic smiled. “So let’s live up to it.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Oh, by the way, you’re going to have to turn over some of your land to the trolls.”)”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Hey! Someone in the crowd is carrying a ‘Duncan the Daring’ sign!” Duncan shouted. “Oh, it’s Frank,” he added, less enthusiastically.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Gustav,” he said, “I’m proud of you. You can relax now.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
“Вообще-то, им выдалась такая неделька, что после нее вполне законно ввязаться в массовую драку.”
― Christopher Healy, quote from The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom
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― Rachel Hauck, quote from Georgia on Her Mind
“The populace consists of individuals and free men, while the state is made up of numbers. When the state dominates, killing becomes abstract. Servitude began with the shepherds; in the river valleys it attained perfection with canals and dikes. Its model was the slavery in mines and mills. Since then, the ruses for concealing chains have been refined.”
― Ernst Jünger, quote from Eumeswil
“I was beloved. I had been hoped for. Somehow, I was necessary.”
― Tosca Lee, quote from Havah: The Story of Eve
“"What do you say, Miss Lyndon? Shall we have a go at it?"
" 'Shall we have a go at it?' " Ellie choked out. Really, this was not the proposal of her dreams.”
― Julia Quinn, quote from Brighter Than the Sun
“How had she ended up like this, imprisoned in the role of harridan? Once upon a time, her brash manner had been a mere posture - a convenient and amusing way for an insecure teenage bride, newly arrived in America, to disguise her crippling shyness. People had actually enjoyed her vituperation back then, encouraged it and celebrated it. She had carved out a minor distinction for herself as a 'character': the cute little English girl with the chutzpah and the longshoreman's mouth. 'Get Audrey in here,' they used to cry whenever someone was being an ass. 'Audrey'll take him down a peg or two.'
But somewhere along the way, when she hadn't been paying attention, her temper had ceased to be a beguiling party at that could be switched on and off at will. It had begun to express authentic resentments: boredom with motherhood, fury at her husband's philandering, despair at the pettiness of her domestic fate. She hadn't noticed the change at first. Like an old lady who persists in wearing the Jungle Red lipstick of her glory days, she had gone on for a long time, fondly believing that the stratagems of her youth were just as appealing as they had ever been. By the time she woke up and discovered that people had taken to making faces at her behind her back - that she was no longer a sexy young woman with a charmingly short fuse but a middle-aged termagant - it was too late. Her anger had become a part of her. It was a knotted thicket in her gut, too dense to be cut down and too deeply entrenched in the loamy soil of her disappointments to be uprooted.”
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